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TORONTO — With all of the roster work on the horizon this winter for the Toronto Blue Jays, it seems highly unlikely they’ll be able to stick...
TORONTO — After limping to the finish line in 2024 sporting an offence that ended up 23rd in runs scored, 27th in homers, 27th in stolen bases and...
TORONTO — All of the focus this winter is on the bats, and with good reason. Without offensive improvements in 2025, the Toronto Blue Jays won’t...
The long, winding road that is the Major League Baseball off-season has arrived, and the Toronto Blue Jays’ to-do list might be just as lengthy. A...
TORONTO — A touch of accountability and a whole lot of internal confusion. That’s the sentence that sums up the latest attempt by this Toronto...
TORONTO — Coming off a season that saw the Toronto Blue Jays fail to meet expectations once again offensively, the club has parted ways with hitting...
TORONTO — From personally to professionally, Erik Swanson has endured a year he’d like to forget. At the very least, it’s ending on a high note...
TORONTO — After a full summer of showing he can handle major-league pitching at an above-average level, there’s no questioning whether or not...
TORONTO — Addison Barger is currently working on Plan A, but he’s one of the rare major leaguers who just might have a Plan B if things don’t...
TORONTO — Kevin Gausman’s personal expectations are always high coming into a season. As in Cy Young high. That’s what’s made an...
TORONTO — The minor-league schedule is winding down and, despite a handful of late-season surges as well as an influx of talent at the trade...
TORONTO — It’s a very simplistic explanation in a complicated sport, but a bad bullpen is one of two reasons the Blue Jays’ season went south....
TORONTO — Every area of the roster will have to be touched this winter, including the rotation. But Bowden Francis is trying to give the Toronto...
TORONTO — The Cincinnati Reds showed up in Toronto on Monday. Joey Votto did not. Thought of as a potential storybook-type opportunity for the...
TORONTO — Mark Shapiro is making zero promises in August. From the long-term direction of his Toronto Blue Jays to the group of men in the front...
TORONTO — For the first time in five years the Toronto Blue Jays were trade deadline sellers and are now comfortably playing out the string for the...
TORONTO — The lone positive in a lost season is the ability to do what the Toronto Blue Jays just did at the trade deadline. Tear things down as...
TORONTO — Leading up to the final 24 hours ahead of Tuesday’s 6 p.m. (ET) trade deadline, Toronto Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins has stayed the course....
TORONTO — There is no easy blueprint when it comes to drafting and developing in baseball. The best teams are able to churn out talent consistently,...
TORONTO — The month of July can bring a wide array of emotions into a big-league clubhouse. When you’re in the situation the Toronto Blue Jays...
TORONTO — After a few years of using the minor-league system to acquire big-league help, it looks as though things could be shifting back to...
TORONTO — As his team returned home seven games under .500, Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins stood in front of the media Thursday...
TORONTO — Sometimes, it’s just not your year. In the midst of just about everything going wrong, it’s looking like 2024 could be simply one of...
TORONTO — The wait for Orelvis Martinez has been a long one, and it may take even more time before the 22-year-old infielder provides the sort of...
TORONTO — There’s an old roster-building adage in baseball that the six-month season is distinctly divided into three stages. Two months to...
TORONTO — As always, the first two months of the minor league season has produced a mixed bag of stories for the Toronto Blue Jays’ prospect...
TORONTO — With his team sitting five games under .500 and mired in last place in the AL East, Ross Atkins stood in front of the media Saturday...
TORONTO — Whether you believe its embedded in the psyche of an athlete hoping to cash in or simply call it good timing, there’s a long history of...
TORONTO — It’s easy to see how the Blue Jays got here. As many expected and predicted during an inactive winter, it’s been an anemic offence...
TORONTO — The AL East gauntlet and big-league wins are what matter to most when it comes to the Toronto Blue Jays right now, but sustainable winning...
TORONTO — It’s been a good news, bad news type of week for Toronto Blue Jays pitching prospects. On Friday, manager John Schneider exhaled when he...
TORONTO — The bats have been under the microscope since last summer, but the reason the Toronto Blue Jays are hovering around the .500 mark to...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s that time of year. The time where I write about what I expect to see over the next six months, ruffle some feathers,...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The 2024 season for the Toronto Blue Jays is going to start the same way the final game of last year began — with Jose...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Six-plus weeks and 30 pretend games are in the books, leaving opening day on the horizon. Uneventful spring trainings are...
With a little more than two weeks to go until opening day and a season-opening 10-game road trip that will test the Toronto Blue Jays in an intriguing...
When your 2023 season was defined by a lack of offence and your two biggest off-season additions are a 62-year-old hitting savant and a 39-year-old...
The success of the Toronto Blue Jays offence this season doesn’t hinge on Davis Schneider, but there’s no arguing a continuation of his...
DUNEDIN, Fla. — It was a normal Friday afternoon camp day in the Blue Jays clubhouse at the player development complex, about 24 hours before the...
DUNEDIN, Fla. — The difference between a postseason appearance and falling a few games short can be a very fine line. Injuries usually play a huge...
DUNEDIN, Fla. — When your own expectations are sky-high internally like Bo Bichette’s have been since the day he arrived in the big leagues,...
CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. — Running back a veteran-heavy ball club with World Series aspirations means there’s not a whole lot of room for prospects...
CLEARWATER, Fla. — If the Toronto Blue Jays are going to meet expectations this season, it’ll likely have to be the rotation leading the way once...
DUNEDIN, Fla. — More than most, Kevin Gausman could completely feel and understand what Alek Manoah was going through last year. To Toronto Blue...
TAMPA, Fla. — Pressure isn’t just something you put in your tires, it’s a very real aspect and potential roadblock that a baseball team with...
TORONTO — An off-season that started with a whole lot of excitement and drama and airplanes and big-game hunting is likely to end in exact opposite...
It’s time for the yearly game we like to call subjective fun with the term breakout. On a large-scale level in 2023, the Toronto Blue Jays system...
For the sixth year in a row, we go deep into Toronto Blue Jays farm system to highlight not only the next set of potential superstars, but also the...
For the sixth year in a row, we go deep into Toronto Blue Jays farm system to highlight not only the next set of potential superstars, but also the...
For the sixth year in a row, we go deep into Toronto Blue Jays farm system to highlight not only the next set of potential superstars, but also the...